Hiring Our Heroes featured 82 companies, several of them locally based in the Greater Cincinnati area including, The Kroger Co., Cincinnati Bell and Fifth Third Bank.

Veteran Chris Anderson enlisted in the United States Army in 2011. He left as a specialist after serving one tour in Afghanistan.

Anderson had never been to a veteran job fair but decided to take his dad's advice to check it out, start networking and admits transitioning back to civilian life can be tough.

"The general ability to not try to bark orders at people and try to work well with others as well as trying to click back into normal society, the rank structure is a lot different," Anderson said.

With a background in nursing education, Anderson was especially interested in talking with Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He left his name, number and plans to apply for a job soon.

Veteran Ronald Sharp was looking for a job with less time on his feet. He is a disabled U.S. Army and Marine veteran and has been out of work since 2010 due to his disability.

"A lot of things that we do in the military are totally different than corporate America, so you have to be aware of what you are going into when you are looking for a job," Sharp said. "We bring not only organizational skills, but we bring teamwork and we bring structure because that's what we're taught in the military."

Cathy Pragar is the manager of recruitment in Human Resources for AdvancePierre Foods in Tri-County. AdvancePierre sponsored the job fair and has had a positive experience hiring veterans in the company.

"We feel that when we hire a veteran that he is going to go the extra mile and do a great job for us. A lot of the people that we've hired have been promoted all the way up to vice president roles," Pragar said.

Director of Event Operations John Lundberg helps Recruit Military plan these type of job fair events. He said close to 600 veterans signed up for the job fair and between 350-500 were expected to attend.

"If you are a veteran, it makes no difference when you served or in what capacity, or if you are a spouse or a family member of a veteran, it's important to make sure we include them because they had to sacrifice just as much as the veterans did when the veterans served," Anderson said.

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